Meaning & use
epically
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In a manner befitting an epic; on a grand or heroic scale, or, informally, to an extreme or impressive degree.
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The film retells the epically scaled battle between the two ancient kingdoms.
The party was epically fun, with people still talking about it weeks later.
A note on using this word
While rooted in "epic," referring to a long narrative poem of heroic deeds, the informal sense as a casual intensifier ("epically bad," "epically good") took off in the 2000s.
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